Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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The Connection Between Capitalism and Mental Illness
Fisher makes a lot out of the connections between capitalism and mental illness. He says that one of the most common conditions treated by the n h s and briton is depression. There isra disturbing correlation between rising t rates of mental distress and the near liberal mode of production. Stress and distress are symptoms of near many causes, but also of existing under capitalism. It is hard. Precariety is incredibly hard. How has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill? The mental health plague in capitalist societies would suggest that,. instead of being the only social system for works, capitalism is inherently this functional and the cost of it pearing to
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